College of Micronesia - FSM

The Legal Information System (LIS) of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) seeks to improve public access to the laws and other legal authority of the FSM and its four states.  This LIS Project strives to do so by increasing accessibility to the constitutions, statutes, selected court rules and decisions, and selected rules and regulations of the and the four state governments of , and .      This LIS is part of the Improving Access to Laws project primarily funded by a technical assistance (TA) grant under the law and governance TA program of the , along with coordination and support from the , which is the local executing agency.      The overall objectives of the TA are to assist the FSM national and state governments to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the legal system by making existing and future laws more available to the public and by advancing public understanding of the legal system.      The TA is broken down into two primary parts, one is the Legal Information System provided mainly through this web site and the other is a program of community education on various aspects of the local legal system that is being undertaken by the .  The community education component will be carried out using radio and video programs, as well as distributed written material.      This LIS portion of the project includes the following main components: complete co...